Monday, February 20, 2012

Sookie Stackhouse is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Charlaine
Harris' "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" and the main character in HBO's
television adaptation, 'True Blood'.

Sookie is a telepathic barmaid from
Louisiana who is in her mid-twenties at the beginning of the "Southern Vampire
Mysteries" series.

Orphaned at the age of seven after her parents died in
a flash flood, Sookie and her brother Jason were raised by their paternal
grandmother, Adele. For most of her life Sookie experiences her telepathy as a
"disability" that isolates her from other people. Her childhood is marred by the
loss of her parents and sexual molestation suffered at the hands of her
great-uncle.

Aside from her grandmother and brother, Sookie has a cousin
named Hadley, with whom she was close in their early years. Other family that
play an important role in Sookie's life are her fairy great-grandfather, Niall
Brigant, her fairy cousins, Claudine, Claude, and Claudette, and her uncle
Dermot. After her cousin Hadley dies, she discovers that her cousin had a son,
Hunter, who shares Sookie's telepathic abilities.

For much of her story,
Sookie lives alone in the home her grandmother raised her in and willed to her.
From time to time Sookie shares her home with various people, including Amelia
Broadway and her fairy cousin Claude. Sookie's main source of income is her
position as barmaid at Merlotte's, a local bar owned by [[Sam Merlotte];
however, Sookie is occasionally hired as a telepath by her supernatural
acquaintances.

"The Southern Vampire Mysteries", also known as "The Sookie Stackhouse
Novels", is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris
that were first published in 2001 and now serve as the source material for the
HBO television series 'True Blood'. The series has been retronymed the "True
Blood Series" upon reprinting to capitalize on the television
adaptation.

In "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" series, Harris develops a
detailed mythology and alternate history that approaches supernatural beings as
real; at the beginning of the series, vampires have only been public knowledge
for a couple of years. Other supernatural beings, such as werewolves,
shapeshifters, etc., exist but do not go public until later in the series. Its
history has otherwise unfolded so closely to that of the real world that the
series contains occasional references to popular culture.

The series is
narrated in first person perspective by Sookie Stackhouse. She is a waitress and
a telepath in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. The first book in the
series, "Dead Until Dark", won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in
2001. The eleventh book, "Dead Reckoning", was released on May 3, 2011. Harris
was originally contracted to write 10 books, but she revealed at Comic Con 2009
that she has signed a contract for three additional books.

You can tell I don’t get out much. And it’s not because I’m not pretty. I am.
I’m blond and blue-eyed and twenty-five, and my legs are strong and my bosom is
substantial, and I have a waspy waistline. I look good in the warm-weather
waitress outfit Sam picked for us: black shorts, white T, white socks, black
Nikes.
But I have a disability. That’s how I try to think of it.The bar patrons just say I’m crazy.Either way, the result is that I almost never have a date. So little treats
count a lot with me.And he sat at one of my tables—the vampire.
I knew immediately what he was. It amazed me when no one else turned around
to stare. They couldn’t tell! But to me, his skin had a little glow, and I just
knew.I could have danced with joy, and in fact I did do a little step right there
by the bar. Sam Merlotte, my boss, looked up from the drink he was mixing and
gave me a tiny smile. I grabbed my tray and pad and went over to the vampire’s
table. I hoped that my lipstick was still even and my ponytail was still neat.
I’m kind of tense, and I could feel my smile yanking the corners of my mouth up.He seemed lost in thought, and I had a chance to give him a good once-over
before he looked up. He was a little under six feet, I estimated. He had thick
brown hair, combed straight back and brushing his collar, and his long sideburns
seemed curiously old-fashioned. He was pale, of course; hey, he was dead, if you
believed the old tales. The politically correct theory, the one the vamps
themselves publicly backed, had it that this guy was the victim of a virus that
left him apparently dead for a couple of days and thereafter allergic to
sunlight, silver, and garlic. The details depended on which newspaper you read.
They were all full of vampire stuff these days.Anyway, his lips were lovely, sharply sculpted, and he had arched dark brows.
His nose swooped down right out of that arch, like a prince’s in a Byzantine
mosaic. When he finally looked up, I saw his eyes were even darker than his
hair, and the whites were incredibly white. ``What can I get you?” I asked, happy almost beyond words.He raised his eyebrows. ``Do you have the bottled synthetic blood?” he asked.``No, I’m so sorry! Sam’s got some on order. Should be in next week.”``Then red wine, please,” he said, and his voice was cool and clear, like a
stream over smooth stones. I laughed out loud. It was too perfect.``Don’t mind, Sookie, mister, she’s crazy,” came a familiar voice from the
booth against the wall. All my happiness deflated, though I could feel the smile
still straining my lips. The vampire was staring at me, watching the life go out
of my face.

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